Tonight participants begin gathering for the FIRST Response (FEB Immediate Radio Support Team) workshop in the city of Bangalore which will be followed by a live field trial in the tsunami-ravaged city of Nagapattinam.  This is the second workshop and trial of its kind, the first (pictured) taking place in Legaspi city in the Southern Philippines which is prone to volcanic erruptions and the frightening phenomenon known as ‘lahar’.  

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Twelve highly motivated Nepalis from different parts of the country have just completed a two-week forray into the wonderful world of community radio.  For most, this was the first time they’d laid their hands on a computer let alone made a radio programme.  Yet by the end of the workshop, all of them had successfully scripted, interviewed, recorded and edited their first radio programmes which were then broadcast via a Feba Chrysolite “suitcase studio”. » Continue Reading